On a bright Lisbon afternoon, the great Praça do Comércio opens toward the Tagus in all its neoclassical grandeur — the triumphal Arco da Rua Augusta framing the equestrian statue of King José I, while Lisboetas and tourists cross the wide pink-paved square in the unhurried rhythm of a city that has always known how to inhabit its own beauty. Known to locals as Terreiro do Paço (Palace Square), this waterfront plaza was rebuilt after the catastrophic 1755 earthquake that leveled much of the city, and its arcaded ministries, ochre-washed and green-shuttered, stand as testament to the Marquis of Pombal's iron-willed reconstruction of an entire capital. Period buses and automobiles visible at the square's edges date this chrome-era card to the 1960s, when Colecção Dúlia was producing some of the finest color postcard photography of Portuguese monuments. The saturated blue sky, the warm stone, and the bustle of figures crossing the sun-bleached cobbles give the image a timeless quality that decades have only deepened.